Peter H. Huang and Corie Lynn Rosen (Colorado): The Zombie Lawyer Apocalypse (“This article uses a popular cultural framework to address the near-epidemic levels of depression, decision-making errors, and professional dissatisfaction that studies document are prevalent among many law students and lawyers today”.) Do France’s intellectuals have a Muslim problem? Robert Zaretsky on Houellebecq, Charlie Hebdo, and the French struggle to understand how 5 million citizens fit into the Fifth Republic. French hate speech laws are less simplistic than you think; in truth, all liberal democracies forbid some speech. Tim Parks on the limits of satire. Charlie Hebdo meets The Interview: A. Carl LeVan on what political science has to say about issues raised in contemporary political satire. The problem for conservative health reformers is that for all the plans floating around, there's little evidence Republicans care enough about health reform to pay its cost. Why do so many Americans hold views that are completely at odds with, and completely unaffected by, actual experience? Paul Krugman on hating good government. Scott Kaufman on 12 statements by Martin Luther King Jr. you won’t see conservatives post on Facebook. What is it about hackers and sexy selfies? Martin Hirst wonders. Girls goes to Iowa, humiliation ensues: Erin Keane on why pop culture hates MFA programs.

Samantha Buckingham (Loyola): A Tale of Two Systems: How Schools and Juvenile Courts are Failing Students. Atoning for a genocide: Diyarbakir, Turkey, once at the center of the Armenian genocide, is trying to make amends — Raffi Khatchadourian reports from his grandfather’s home town. Ashlee Vance on Elon Musk's plan to build a space Internet. Eric Holder bars local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without warrants or criminal charges, the most sweeping check on police power to confiscate personal property since the seizures began three decades ago as part of the war on drugs. Helicopters don’t pay for themselves: Leon Neyfakh on why Eric Holder’s civil forfeiture decision won’t stop civil forfeiture abuse. James McAuley on how there's a model for how France should treat its Muslims — it's how France treats its Jews. Andrew Hammond on Al Qaeda and Islamic State: A deadly rivalry. When ideologies tangle: Borzou Daragahi reviewsConfronting Political Islam by John Owen. Todd Krainin interviews Glenn Greenwald on surveillance, reporting, and new fault lines in American politics. Mark A. Rothstein on the moral challenge of Ebola. The museum of the revolution and the museum of modernist art are meeting places for the politician and the artist fighting against the limitations of time and place; we are dealing with a paradoxical phenomenon of avant-garde museology.

Mark Denbeaux, Jonathan Hafetz, Joshua W. Denbeaux, and Joseph Hickman (Seton Hall): Guantanamo: America’s Battle Lab. Susan Ariel Aaronson (GWU): Why Trade Agreements are Not Setting Information Free: The Lost History and Reinvigorated Debate over Cross-Border Data Flows, Human Rights and National Security. Should we oppose the intervention against ISIS? Most U.S. leftists say yes, but voices we rarely hear — Kurds and members of the Syrian opposition — have more ambiguous views. The resurgence of the Leftist public intellectual: Daniel Tutt reviewsThe Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today by Remzig Keucheyan. From Public Seminar, Jessica R. Benjamin on the Discarded and the Dignified: From the Failed Witness to “You are the Eyes of the World” (in 6 parts). Jenny Oser, Jan E. Leighley and Ken Winneg on how people who don't just vote but participate in politics in other ways are different from both nonvoters and ordinary voters. The Ron Paul Institute says the Charlie Hebdo massacre, like 9/11, was a false flag operation. France will recover from the Paris attacks — will French Muslims? Gun nuts simulate Paris shooting, get shot by simulated terrorists. Vox got no threats for posting Charlie Hebdo cartoons, but dozens for covering Islamophobia. “Why History Will Eviscerate Obama”: Scott Lemieux brings you the annotated Christopher Caldwell. I'm so, so glad this guy exists, Roger Ver.

Nicholas Maxwell (UCL): Can Scientific Method Help Us Create a Wiser World? David Bosworth (Washington): Conscientious Thinking and the Transformation of the Modern Sciences. Mark B. Brown (CSU-Sacramento): Politicizing Science: Conceptions of Politics in Science and Technology Studies. Michael Strevens (NYU): Scientiﬁc Sharing: Communism and the Social Contract (“This paper investigates what Robert Merton called science’s “communist” norm, which mandates universal sharing of knowledge, and uses mathematical models of discovery to argue that a communist regime may be on the whole advantageous and fair to all parties, and so might be implemented by a social contract that all scientists would be willing to sign”). Russian science is amazing, so why hasn’t it taken over the world? Leon Neyfakh interviews Loren Graham on why we should all worry about a great power’s failure to convert on its knowledge. Lorraine Daston on wonder and the ends of inquiry. What scientists really do: Priyamvada Natarajan reviewsCuriosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything by Philip Ball and Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein. How scientific inquiry works: Seamus O’Mahony reviewsAre We all Scientific Experts Now? by Harry Collins. Carolyn Y. Johnson on how a glut of postdoc researchers stirs quiet crisis in science. Life outside the lab: Sometimes, the brightest stars in science decide to leave — Nature finds out where they go.